Larry Ellison told attendees at Oracle OpenWorld that his company provides the only way to automatically move data between on-premise and the cloud while automatically modernizing applications for social, mobile, analytics and security capabilities.

Ingram Micro has over the past two months reached agreements with 65 channel partners to resell Chromebooks, which should cost $5,200 less than a traditional laptop or desktop over the lifetime of a device.

Larry Ellison has stepped down as Oracle CEO after 37 years, and Oracle Co-Presidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz are replacing him as co-CEOs. But they all insist that not much is changing aside from their titles.

As part of a yearlong overhaul of its channel program, enterprise workspace management solutions company AppSense has rolled out a series of partner program changes to become more "channel-friendly" and drive more business for partners.

While a large group of EMC's investors continue to hope that EMC will sell parts of itself to create more clear valuation for them, EMC is likely heading in the opposite direction by considering more acquisitions, according to a top analyst.